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Description

Come out and learn from a panel of expert node.js engineers and leaders who will discuss the ins and outs of this growing technology! The panel will consist of 4-5 local node experts each coming from a different background so we can explore how node performs in different environments.

Schedule

6:00-6:30 Networking & light refreshments

6:30-7:30 Node Panel Talk

7:30-7:45 Audience Q&A

7:45-8:00 Event wrap-up/networking

Moderator

Mike Hostetler currently works as Director of Front-end Engineering for Raise Marketplace. Prior to joining Raise, Mike worked as Entrepreneur in Residence at Table XI Partners, a Digital Consultancy in Chicago. His background is in software engineering and startups, having worked across many industries from government to energy to publishing.

Mike is a passionate contributor to the frontend software community. Having participated in Open Source for over a decade, Mike now organizes the Chicago Node.js Meetup and volunteers time for the Software Freedom Conservancy, an organization that helps provide infrastructure and legal support for many open source projects, including GIT and Homebrew.

Panelists

Gabrielle Crevecoeur is a technical evangelist at Microsoft specializing in open source development. Her current focus is Node.js. Gabrielle is a recent graduate of Florida State University, where she majored in computer science. She is now attending the University of Illinois at Chicago, were she is working to her Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering. When Gabrielle is not programming, you can find her playing video games or watching Netflix.

Jeff Bzdawka is the CTO of AlertMD, a fast-growing company that provides data-driven solutions to change how hospitals and healthcare providers do business. As a full-stack software developer for the past 15 years, Jeff has experience in many web and mobile tech stacks. AlertMD has been leveraging NodeJS since early 2013, along-side other technologies that empower real-time applications and aggressive development timelines.

Joseph Juhnke is the Vice President of Engineering at CarrierDirect, where he leads the technology team including overseeing the architecture and build of customer products and ecosystems. Joe specializes in LEAN/MEAN MVP application development using SDLC best practices to build desired products with agility. Joe is also a licensed private pilot in the United States of America and an avid runner and snowboarder.

Marshall Thompson is a JavaScript Consultant at Bitovi and a long-time member of the FeathersJS core team. He enjoys creating tools that enable front end developers to own the stack and feel comfortable programming on the server. He has somehow managed to work from home while raising five kids, ten turkeys, a few ducks, and some pigs.